Linear variance models for plant breeding trials

Plant Breeding

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Piepho, H P ^a   Williams, E R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Field trial; Linear variance; Residual maximum likelihood; Resolvable row Column designs; Separability; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956970196     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01654.x     Document Type: Article

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